Down the swift dark stream you goBack to lands you once did know!Leave the halls and caverns deep,Leave the northern mountains steep,Where the forest wide and dimStoops in shadow grey and grim!Float beyond the world of treesOut into the whispering breeze,Past the rushes, past the reeds,Past the marsh's waving weeds,Through the mist that riseth whiteUp from mere and pool at night!Follow, follow stars that leapUp the heavens cold and steep;Turn when dawn comes over land,Over rapid, over sand,South away! and South away!Seek the sunlight and the day,Back to pasture, back to mead,Where the kine and oxen feed!Back to gardens on the hillsWhere the berry swells and fillsUnder sunlight, under day!South away! and South away!Down the swift dark stream you goBack to lands you once did know!